A woman has been remanded in custody charged with covering up the death of a one-year-old for more than a decade.

Article: The Older People's Commissioner for Wales has expressed concerns that people will not get a hot meal every day or see another person.
In some areas private companies have filled the gap but provision is patchy, with no service in some council areas.
The Welsh Local Government Association said councils faced Â£300m budget cuts.
The freedom of information request by Radio Cymru showed a fall of 32% from 2009 to 2014 across the 19 councils which responded.
Some local authorities now only provide a fortnightly service and deliver frozen meals.
Iwan Williams, from the Older People's Commsioners' office, said: "The meals on wheels service is vital to the health and wellbeing of older people across Wales, not only for physical reasons but also mentally.
"In terms of the meals, it's important old people have a warm nutritious meal at least once a day.
"It is imperative not only for their physical health, but also the relationship they develop over time with meals on wheels providers.
"It is also important in terms of mental health and how to combat loneliness."
The WLGA said councils in Wales were facing huge financial challenges.
A spokesman said: "With public sector austerity expected to last well into the future it is unavoidable that all councils in Wales will need to consider new ways of delivering services, new ways of charging for services and, where unavoidable, ways they can scale back existing levels of provision."

Summary: The number of meals being provided by council meals on wheels services has dropped by a third in five years, a BBC investigation has found.
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Article: But supporters making it impossible for the referee to do his job?
Well, Zimbabwean football fans have taken to social media to vent their spleen following the abandonment of the country's biggest derby on Sunday.
There was plenty of confusion and a smattering of anger when the Premier League match between Highlanders and Dynamos, the most famous and successful clubs, was called off just before the break.
The match commissioner took the decision with the score at 1-1 as he feared for the safety of one of the assistant referees at a packed Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo.
With the game shown live on Africa-wide broadcaster SuperSport, the difference of opinion among viewers centred over whether goal-scorer Christian Epoupa was onside or not.
Epoupa was in an offside position, but replays showed that a pass deflected off a Highlanders defender and into his path.
In yet another incident that raised questions over issues of crowd control, Highlanders fans furious with the Dynamos equaliser hurled abuse and started throwing objects at assistant referee Thomas Kusosa, accusing him of allowing an "off-side" goal to stand.
Disturbances went on for an hour as fans and Highlanders players demanded that the assistant referee be replaced.
"I guess that we should have accepted that the referee has the final say, but we are a mixed multitude, and not all of our supporters will accept such a decision," said Highlanders chairman Modern Ngwenya.
Zimbabwe's biggest derby has a history of crowd trouble but anti-violence banners at the stadium and pleas before the match for supporters to remain calm were of little benefit.
Eddie Chivero, the president of the Zimbabwe Soccer Supporters Association, feels that CCTV cameras are needed to monitor and identify troublemakers.
"We condemn violence in our football, but there is no way that we are going to identify the culprits unless we have CCTV cameras in our stadiums," said Chivero.
"It's supposed to be priority number one, and stadiums without CCTV should not be allowed to host...

Summary: Football fans disagreeing with the referee's decisions is nothing new.
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Article: At present, people who were adopted in the Republic of Ireland do not have an automatic right to access details about their original identity.
The cabinet discussed a draft outline of the new legislation on Wednesday.
But campaigners fear it will not go far enough as birth parents may still be able to prevent access to information.
The Minister for Children, Dr James Reilly, has been working on the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill for some time.
His department has previously said he wants to provide greater access to birth records "in so far as is possible, in line with legal advice in relation the balancing of rights of those involved".
The state is legally required to register the birth of every child born in the Republic of Ireland, and copies of all short-from birth certificates can be accessed for a fee.
However, because many adopted people do not even know the name they were given at birth, often they cannot supply the information needed to apply for their birth certificate in the usual way.
For most of the 20th Century, having a baby outside marriage in an Ireland heavily influenced by the Catholic Church was regarded as scandalous and led to many children being given up for adoption.
The adoption process, which often involved unmarried mothers being put under pressure from the church, was shrouded in a secrecy that continues to this day.
Adopted people have to apply to the agency that dealt with their adoption and/or the Adoption Authority of Ireland to request information about their biological family and the circumstances of their birth.
Currently, the Adoption Authority takes into account the wishes of the birth mother before it releases information to adoptees.
If the mother objects to her details being handed over to the person she gave birth to, the Adoption Authority can then also refuse the adoptee's request, but such objections are considered on a case-by-case basis.
However, campaigners have argued that all citizens should have an equal right to know their family of origin and have...

Summary: New Irish legislation that could give adopted people greater rights to access information about their birth parents is due to be published shortly.
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Article: Richard Carter said the new political party, standing in its first general election, wanted a "real voice" for Yorkshire.
The party, set up in 2014, stood in the last EU elections gaining 19,017 votes.
It intends to stand in 13 seats across Yorkshire in the election. Mr Carter is to contest Dewsbury, currently held by Conservative Simon Reevell.
The party would influence the outcome in certain "ultra-marginal" seats, said Mr Carter.
He said if local government reform only led to a "glorified county council there is no point" but the party wanted devolution "similar to Scotland and Wales" and to establish a parliament for Yorkshire.
"We absolutely do not want independence, we want a stronger United Kingdom that works for all parts and regions," he added.
He was speaking on BBC Look North as part of a series of interviews with party leaders.
Mr Carter qualified as a teacher at Leeds University before setting up his own business and was previously a member of the Labour Party.

Summary: The leader of Yorkshire First has called for "tried and tested, first-rate devolution" for the county.
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Article: Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal Opera House are among the contributors to the Shakespeare Lives portal.
The channel will also host live content on Saturday, marking the actual date of William Shakespeare's 1616 demise.
Tony Hall, the BBC's director general, said the initiative was "another step towards an open BBC".
"Co-curated" by the BBC and the British Council, the Shakespeare Lives site will host content from the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the British Film Institute (BFI) and other arts organisations.
Offerings include the RSC's production of Richard II starring David Tennant, available to view online from 22:30 BST on Saturday, and Sir Ian McKellen discussing the challenges of interpreting Shakespeare for theatre, TV and cinema.
The Shakespeare Day Live programme kicks off on Friday with a live broadcast of a commemorative concert in the Stratford-upon-Avon church where the Bard was baptised and buried.
The line-up continues on Saturday with live broadcasts from Stratford-upon-Avon and in Birmingham, as well as from Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal Opera House in London.
Other programmes, available on demand, include Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester talking about "Being Hamlet", and a short film about young Londoners, featuring Ralph Fiennes, that only uses Shakespeare's words.
"This weekend we're experimenting live with digital formats like never before," said Lord Hall. "For the first time, the BBC will be showcasing the great talent we have in our leading cultural institutions on BBC iPlayer."
The initiative follows a speech Lord Hall gave last year, in which he pledged the BBC would act like "a curator, bringing the best from Britain's great cultural institutions and thinkers to everyone."

Summary: The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death will be marked on the BBC iPlayer by a digital pop-up channel showcasing content from outside the corporation.
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Article: Victoria Gayle, 31, was charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body after police discovered the remains of a baby at her home last month.
Ms Gayle, previously of West Hendon, north London, appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Monday afternoon.
She spoke only to confirm her name, address, and date of birth.
The court heard a post-mortem examination took place at Great Ormond Street Hospital on 2 June but the cause of death could not yet be determined.
Ms Gayle was also charged with perverting the course of justice.
She was not asked to submit a plea and will appear at Kingston Crown Court on 8 July.
The charge follows a case review of an investigation into a child who went missing in 2004, which was sparked by the death of another child at an address in Barnet in 2015.
The investigation led to the arrest of a 50-year-old woman in Fryent Crescent, West Hendon in north London.
A 52-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of preventing a lawful and decent burial.
Both were bailed until mid-July.

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Police have used a "covert lorry" to spy on drivers using their phones.

Article: Eight-year-old Harapan, born in Cincinnati, was the last Sumatran rhino in the Western hemisphere.
Conservationists hope he will mate with females in a rhino sanctuary.
The Sumatran rhino has been threatened by rampant deforestation and poaching. Researchers believe there are fewer than 100 left in the wild.
Harapan, whose name means hope, travelled more than 16,000km (9,941 miles) over land, air and sea to reach the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at the Way Kambas National Park.
His sister, Suci, also lived with him in Cincinnati Zoo but died from an illness last year.
Harapan's trip marked the end of a programme by his zoo to breed rhinos in captivity.
Sumatrans are the smallest of the rhino species and the only Asian rhino with two horns. They are prized by poachers as their horns are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
The rhinos natural habitat in the forest of Sumatra is being devastated illegal logging and forest fires by farmers clearing land for palm oil and pulp plantations.

Summary: A critically endangered male Sumatran rhino born in a US zoo has been flown to Indonesia to mate, as part of efforts to save his species.
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Article: More than 4,000 pages have been scanned, including his annotated copy of Principia Mathematica, containing Newton's laws of motion and gravity.
Newton wrote mainly in Latin and Greek, the scientific language of his time, and was reluctant to publish.
The university plans to put almost all of its Newton collection online.
The papers mark the launch of the Cambridge Digital Library project to digitise its collections.
As well as Principia and Newton's college notebooks, the Newton Papers section of the online library contains his "Waste Book".
The large notebook was inherited from his stepfather, and scholars believe it helped Newton to make significant breakthroughs in the field of calculus.
Newton had to be persuaded by fellow scientists Halley and Hooke to publish his works on gravity, mechanics, calculus and optics.
Several of the manuscripts in the collection contain the handwritten line "not fit to be printed", scrawled by Thomas Pellet, a fellow of the Royal Society.
He had been asked to go through Newton's papers after his death and decide which ones should and should not be published.
The university had to undertake conservation work on some of the manuscripts, which were considered too fragile to be scanned.
Grant Young, digitisation manager at the university library said Newton's works were chosen for the site because they were "perhaps some of the most important papers and documents in the history of science".
"Anyone, wherever they are, can see at the click of a mouse how Newton worked and how he went about developing his theories and experiments," he said.
"Before today, anyone who wanted to see these things had to come to Cambridge.
"Now we're bringing Cambridge University Library to the world."
A further 8,000 pages of Newton's works are to be added over the next few months.
Other works which will become part of the digital library include the university's Charles Darwin collection.
The digital library project was started in 2010 with a grant from the Polonsky Foundation, a charity that supports...

Summary: The notebooks in which Sir Isaac Newton worked out the theories on which much classical science is based have been put online by Cambridge University.
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Article: Le Monde says the controversy, which has erupted at a time of high tension in France over the influence of Islam, "is political in origin".
The paper points out that two of the main figures who have objected to the event - Valerie Boyer, a member of the centre-right party The Republicans, and Stephane Ravier, a member of the far-right National Front - will be contesting parliamentary seats in Marseille in 2017.
The left-leaning Liberation echoes this line, saying the controversy "has nothing to do with the law" but is being stoked by conservative and far-right politicians seeking to gain political advantage by suggesting that fundamentalism is in the ascendancy in France.
The paper says that a ban on the event could be counter-productive, by creating a sense of injustice.
In a piece headlined "The burkini day is making waves", Le Parisien also points out that there is "nothing illegal" about holding such an event in private.
"But yesterday it caused an outcry, fuelled mostly by elected representatives from The Republicans and the National Front," the paper notes.
Remi Godeau, writing in the liberal Paris-based paper L'Opinion, dismisses the controversy as being "as vain as it is empty".
He accuses certain politicians of seeking to make an already tense atmosphere worse by acting as "sorcerer's apprentices, pyromaniacs and fear merchants" and of "stigmatising the entire Muslim community in the run-up to the election".
La Provence points out that the event has been advertised by its organisers since mid-July, but that the controversy only broke out "after elected representatives on all sides took a stand on the issue".
Meanwhile, the news website of France's main commercial TV channel BFMTV declares that "There's no summer break for religious controversies.
"A sign of communalism or the exercise of the right to practise one's religion? This is the question posed by the 'burkini day'."
However, at least one commentator approves of the idea of a ban on burkini-clad swimming sessions.
Gilles Debernardi, writing in...

Summary: Plans to hire a waterpark in Marseille for a "burkini day" attended only by women wearing the all-over swimming garment have sparked criticism from right-wing politicians, but the French media are on the whole suspicious of their motives.
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Article: The first-time observation was made on 24 Themis, a huge rock that orbits almost 480 million km out from the Sun.
The researchers say that ice is not stable in such circumstances and has to be replenished by some means - perhaps from inside the object.
They tell Nature magazine the finding plays into the theory that much of the water in Earth's oceans was delivered from space.
"It's interesting that we have detected ice on an asteroid because there have been suggestions that water on Earth came from impacts with many asteroids in Earth's early history," said Professor Humberto Campins, from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, US.
"This detection of water-ice on the surface of an asteroid supports that idea," he told BBC News.
24 Themis is about 200km in diameter, making it one of the biggest rocks in the main asteroid belt.  It orbits at more than one-and-a-half-times the Sun-Mars distance.
The observation that its surface is frosted was confirmed by two independent teams - one led by Professor Campins - who examined how light was reflected off the body using the US space agency's (Nasa) Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
The teams also found a signature for complex organic, or carbon-rich, compounds.
Scientists have long since detected hydrated, or water-containing, minerals on the surfaces of asteroids - but this is a first in terms of an observation of exposed water-ice.
The researchers were drawn to make the study because smaller fragments of the rock broken off during an ancient collision look rather like comets when viewed through telescopes, and this suggested they and the larger body might harbour significant quantities of ice.
But to find it covering the surface is unexpected, say the researchers. In sunlight, and with no pressure from an atmosphere, the ice would be expected to vaporise rapidly.
This indicates the ice disappearing at the surface is constantly being replaced.
One scenario thought highly unlikely is that Themis has had a recent collision with an icy comet.
More...

Summary: Scientists have detected water-ice on the surface of an asteroid.
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Article: His nomination to head Nato commander in Europe had been put on hold amid reports the emails were inappropriate.
Gen Allen is due to relinquish command of his Afghanistan post in February.
Harassment complaints by Mrs Kelley led the FBI to unmask an affair between CIA chief David Petraeus and his biographer. He later resigned.
A spokesman for Gen Allen said the general was "obviously pleased" to be cleared of the charges he had violated the prohibition against conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
"From the outset, the general placed his faith in - and fully supported - the investigative process," Maj David Nevers said.
Defence officials told the Associated Press that the White House had not decided whether to go forward with Gen Allen's nomination to Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said the defence department "was pleased to learn that allegations of professional misconduct were not substantiated", adding that Defence Secretary Leon Panetta had "complete confidence in the continued leadership" of Gen Allen.
The emails first came to light as part of a wider investigation into email harassment against Mrs Kelley, who knew both Gen Allen and Mr Petraeus, a former general, through social contacts on the Florida military base where US Central Command is headquartered.
When the FBI investigated, it traced the emails to Petraeus biographer Paula Broadwell, bringing to light her affair with the CIA chief.
Earlier reports suggested Gen Allen had exchanged thousands of emails, some described as inappropriate and flirtatious, with Mrs Kelley.
The Afghanistan commander had also written a letter to a judge in support of Mrs Kelley's twin sister in a messy child custody dispute.
After being contacted by the FBI, Mr Panetta announced the inquiry into Gen Allen and put the commander's nomination on hold.
Defence officials told the Washington Post that the full investigation had shown that there were in fact only several hundred emails exchanged between Gen Allen and Mrs Kelley,...

Summary: The top US general in Afghanistan, General John Allen, has been cleared of misconduct by the Pentagon for emails sent to Florida socialite Jill Kelley.
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Article: Thames Valley Police caught 12 drivers on the A34 and M40 in Oxfordshire using phones on a single day during the operation.
It comes after a lorry driver was sentenced to four years for killing a family-of-four by getting distracted when using his phone on the A34.
Police said that one driver was filmed for 30 seconds driving with no hands on the steering wheel.
Chief inspector Henry Parsons said: "Sometimes HGV drivers think as they are high up we cannot see them using a device, but with this tactic we definitely can."
On 31 October Tomasz Kroker was sentenced to four years after he pleaded guilty to using his phone while in charge of a lorry.
After getting distracted he ploughed into a number of cars killing Tracey Houghton, her two sons and her stepdaughter.

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The developers of a planned 18-hole championship golf course have sought to allay concerns about their proposal's impact on a protected coastal area.

Article: Sir Stanley Wells, who lives in Stratford-upon-Avon, has dedicated his career to studying the life and works of England's most famous playwright.
The 86-year-old is also a professor emeritus of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham.
He said he was "delighted" by the honour.
"I feel myself most fortunate in having been able to spend so much of my life in the company of Shakespeare and of those who admire and enjoy his works," he said.
"Throughout my career as teacher and scholar I have enjoyed and benefitted enormously from collaborating with fellow scholars from all over the world, and I hope they will share my pleasure in receiving this award."
Peter Kyle, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said Sir Stanley's knighthood comes at a "particularly wonderful time in the year" as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death is marked.
"We offer him the warmest congratulations on this very prestigious honour."

Summary: The honorary president of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
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Article: The haul included plastic knuckle dusters and what are suspected to be printed gun parts.
If confirmed, the state's police force has said it would be the first time it had discovered 3D-printed firearm components in a home.
Australian authorities released a series of videos in 2013 highlighting the dangers of using 3D-printed guns.
"We've obviously got to get it through our ballistic experts but we can identify most if not all of the major components of a weapon," detective inspector Scott Knowles of Queensland Police Service told ABC News following the arrest of a 28-year-old suspect in Mudgeeraba.
"To us, it appears that they are complete weapons just requiring assembly.
"The technology's dangerous [because] the materials they're using aren't able to sustain the sorts of forces that come as a result of the weapons they're trying to discharge."
He added that the owner of the printer thought to have been involved had given the machine to the suspect to be calibrated, and was not aware that it was going to be misused.
Last year, Australia's Senate held an inquiry into gun-related violence, during which there were calls for the country's laws to be updated to take account of new technologies.
"We're going to have a situation where someone is going to be shot and injured with the use of a 3D device," warned Howard Brown from the Victims of Crime Assistance League at the time.
It was suggested that it be made an offence to own computer files that would allow 3D-printed weapons to be manufactured.
However, DI Knowles noted that Queensland's current laws were already adequate to prosecute a case if ballistics experts confirmed the 3D-printed parts involved were designed for use in firearms.
"With weapons and parts manufactured this way still being classified as a firearm under current legislation, people can also see themselves before the courts for manufacturing and possessing these items" he said.
3D-printed weapon arrests are still a relatively rare occurrence.
However, a Japanese man was jailed for two years in...

Summary: Police in Australia have seized 3D-printed weapons after a raid in a suburb of Gold Coast City, Queensland.
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Article: Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones inherited the Arriva Trains Wales contract in 2007.
He told BBC Wales of his frustration at the franchise and said it should undergo a radical overhaul in 2018.
Arriva said it had invested tens of millions in services, in many cases over and above its commitments.
The Welsh government said it was looking at how to get better value for money.
BBC Wales has been examining spending on rail subsidies as part of an analysis of government expenditure.
The Welsh government is committed to paying Arriva Trains Wales (ATW) a subsidy of £170m a year under the terms of a 15-year deal signed in 2003. It is due to expire in 2018.
According to figures from the Office for Rail Regulation, last year ATW received the highest public subsidy per passenger mile of any franchise across the UK.
Mr Jones said: "What was obvious is that this wasn't a contract that recognised the substantial increase in train passengers that there's been since 2003.
"It was predicated on the basis that it would grow far more slowly than it has, so you have the examples of many trains, particularly the Valley Lines services, where you had severe overcrowding and you hadn't got more services available."
He added: "Because the franchise was written in the way it was, Arriva was under no obligation to provide extra services, and because we felt that it was necessary to meet some of the demand, we had to pay for that under our own revenue, so we were paying over and above the franchise money simply to order to deal with capacity issues.
"The original contract was flawed because it didn't anticipate the increase in passenger numbers."
The former minister now wants to see major changes, including a "not for dividend" model for the franchise after 2018, where profits would be re-invested in the service, rather than being paid to shareholders.
Transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, from the University of Glamorgan, said the model could deliver real improvements for Welsh travellers.
"It has the potential to keep the profits that...

Summary: A £170m railway franchise is "flawed" and has led to a decade of overcrowding, a former transport minister has said.
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Article: After heavy criticism that it was avoiding tax, the BBC can reveal that profits from the majority of Facebook's advertising revenue initiated in Britain will now be taxed in the UK.
It will no longer route sales through Ireland for its largest advertisers.
That includes major businesses such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, consumer goods firm Unilever and advertising giant WPP.
Is tax tide beginning to turn?
Smaller business sales where advertising is booked online - with little or no Facebook staff intervention - will still be routed through Ireland, which will remain the company's international headquarters.
I am told the change will mean that Facebook will account for substantially more revenue in the UK and will therefore pay a higher level of corporation tax on the profits it makes here.
Corporation tax is levied at 20% on the profits a business makes.
The changes will be put in place in April and Facebook's first, higher, tax bill, will be paid in 2017.
My sources tell me that Facebook moved after coming under increasing global pressure on its tax affairs and as a reaction to changing tax rules.
There was widespread controversy when it was revealed that Facebook paid £4,327 in corporation tax in the UK in 2014, despite Britain being one of the company's biggest markets outside the US.
Globally, the company makes more than £1bn of profit every three months. It does not reveal figures for how much business it does in the UK.
The government's new diverted profits tax was also likely to have a punitive effect on the business in Britain.
That tax is set at 25%, higher than the corporation tax rate, and is aimed at companies which use "contrived" structures to move profits out of the country.
Facebook executives will be told about the changes this morning.
"On Monday, we will start notifying large UK customers that from the start of April, they will receive invoices from Facebook UK and not Facebook Ireland," the internal post, seen by the BBC, says.
"What this means in practice is that UK sales made directly by our...

Summary: Facebook is set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK after a major overhaul of its tax structure.
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Article: However, a documentary called Tickled shines a spotlight on those who take part in it, when a TV reporter from New Zealand, David Farrier, uncovers not just a quirky sport, but a whole industry, and an underworld with allegations of cyber bullying.
Two years ago, Farrier, known for his "and finally" news pieces at his local TV station, discovered what was described as "competitive endurance tickling" videos online.
They featured young men in professional sportswear tickling each other.
A US-based company, Jane O'Brien Media, was producing the videos and offering substantial fees for anyone selected to take part in the shoots in Los Angeles.
"Right in the beginning I thought it was entirely innocent, perhaps with a subtext," explains Farrier.  "I thought it was someone's idea of a funny strange sport, as it was in a photography studio, a professional space. All the men were wearing sportswear so I thought it was someone's odd idea of a tickling league."
"I was intrigued and thought about doing a two-minute feature on it for my show, "he adds, "so I got in touch with them. Really, a short feature was all I was aiming for."
In response however, Farrier, who is bisexual, says he received emails stating that the company did not want to deal with "a homosexual journalist".
"I was a little upset but part of me thought it was funny," he adds. "I didn't understand why a company that makes men-only tickling videos would say that."
"Instinct, intrigue and fascination" drove him and his co-director Dylan Reeve on to find out more about the videos, despite representatives of the company flying to Auckland to threaten legal action. Farrier successfully raised the money for a documentary using the crowd-funding platform, Kickstarter.
"We probably did go into it quite naively," he believes.
"We never expected to find what we did. If you watch the film you'll find it's not really about tickling - it's about power.
"We were interested in the psychology of what made these men take part in the videos, and it was mainly guys who...

Summary: Of all sports that are unlikely to be considered for the next Olympics in Tokyo, "competitive endurance tickling" might be at the top of the list.
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Article: US-based golf course designers Mike Keiser, Bill Coore and Todd Warnock have proposed creating the course at Coul Links, near Dornoch.
Four conservation charities have joined forces to oppose the project.
The developers said they were aiming for "minimal intrusion on the landscape".
The Scottish Wildlife Trust, RSPB Scotland, Buglife and Plantlife have concerns the course will result in the loss of a protected sand dunes habitat and rare wildlife.
The developers, who have held two meetings in the local area as part of public consultation on the plans, said the building of the course would involve laying turf over less than 55 acres (22ha) within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
SSSIs are areas indentified as having a diverse range of wildlife and geology.
The developers said their planned new course, close to Embo, would compliment nearby Royal Dornoch golf course and others in the East Sutherland area.
Mr Keiser, who owns Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon, said: "This is a wonderful opportunity to deliver a spectacular championship links golf course which represents all that is natural about golf, in the home of golf.
"Our golf course developments aim for minimal intrusion on the landscape and the utmost care and respect for the environment.
"Our team of environmental advisors is ensuring complete sensitivity to the land, and its location."

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The family of a woman who killed herself after being discharged from hospital has labelled a report into her death "psycho babble and twaddle".

Article: The 25-year-old, who has played for Gloucestershire since 2010, has agreed a three-year contract with Middlesex.
"We have been looking to sign a fast bowler with white-ball pedigree," said Middlesex managing director of cricket Angus Fraser.
"In James I believe we have found a bowler that will add extra bite and quality to this area."
Fuller was a key part of Gloucestershire's winning One-Day Cup campaign this year, taking 15 wickets including 2-34 in the final at Lord's.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, he holds a UK passport and has taken 101 first-class wickets at an average of 33.90 with best figures of 6-24.
He also has 58 List A one-day wickets at an average of 25.17 and 62 Twenty20 wickets in 46 games.
"I have watched James bowl on numerous occasions and have been impressed with what I have seen," added Fraser.
"He is a fine athlete with a strong, easy action that allows him to bowl with good pace. James is extremely ambitious and is the sort of character that fits what Middlesex are looking for."

Summary: Middlesex have signed James Fuller after the fast bowler turned down a new deal with Gloucestershire.
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Article: Stephanie Embley, 35, of Pine Road, Cantley, South Yorkshire, was investigated after the parents of one of the boys raised concerns about her.
She admitted four charges of sexual activity with a child and was found guilty of a further two at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday.
She was jailed and given a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
That means she can have no contact, either directly or indirectly, with children under the age of 16, police said.
Speaking after the sentencing, Det Con Brian Thompson said: "Embley preyed on and took advantage of teenage boys for her own sexual gratification, which is a despicable crime.
"I am pleased that she has been found guilty of, and pleaded guilty to, these horrific offences and that she is behind bars where she poses no further risk to children.
"The victims and their families have been supportive of our investigation and I thank them for their patience and bravery throughout this inquiry."

Summary: A woman found guilty of sex offences against teenage boys has been jailed for four years.
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Article: They say the 12.4 sq km section is among the largest ever witnessed to come away from the ice stream's calving front.
Satellite imagery suggests the break-up occurred sometime between 13 and 19 August.
Jakobshavn is a major drainage channel for the Greenland ice sheet, producing roughly 10% of its icebergs.
Once discarded, the ice travels down a long fjord before entering the Davis Strait and heading towards the Atlantic.
It is widely speculated that the source of the berg that sank the Titanic was Jakobshavn.
Scientists say the glacier moves at tens of metres a day in Summer months, making it one of the fastest flowing ice streams in Greenland, if not the fastest.
The European Space Agency has been following events with the EU's Sentinel satellites.
Sentinel-1a is a radar platform. Not only can it see through cloud, it can also be used to map flow and elevation changes.
The Sentinel-2a satellite is Europe's new optical spacecraft and can provide context imagery.
Esa says that if the glacier lost a total area of 12.5 sq km, and assuming the ice is about 1,400m deep, then the volume calved would equate to about 17.5 cu km, "which could cover the whole of Manhattan Island by a layer of ice about 300m thick".
It has certainly moved the calving front of the glacier back several km.
Although big in Greenland terms, the ice calving event is still quite small when compared with Antarctica.
Great tabular bergs can break away from the southern polar ice sheet that are thousands of sq km in area.

Summary: Scientists are studying a big mass of ice that has broken off the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland.
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Article: The fresh piece of legislation will allow MSPs to set income tax rates in Scotland and enable Holyrood to borrow more money.
The coalition government at Westminster said it represented the biggest transfer of fiscal power to Scotland in more than 300 years.
But the Scottish government believed the bill was a missed opportunity.
As well as bringing in a new Scottish rate of income tax and borrowing powers worth Â£5bn, the Scotland Act (2012) will hand powers over air guns, drink-driving and speeding limits to Holyrood.
It will also devolve stamp duty, land tax and landfill tax, and give the Scottish Parliament a role in appointments in broadcasting and the Crown Estate.
In addition, there will be new procedures for Scottish criminal cases that go to the UK Supreme Court.
The bill officially became law after receiving Royal Assent, but Holyrood will not be able to use the new powers until 2016.
The SNP administration at Holyrood, which intends to hold a referendum on Scottish independence in the autumn of 2014, backed the Scotland Bill, but said it had been "bypassed by events".
However, Scottish Secretary Michael Moore told BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "I'm confident when we get on to debating independence that in Scotland we are going to judge we are far better to continue to be part of the most successful partnership of nations in history, rather than going our own separate way.
"But in the meantime, I am confident that we can do that and we will do that. It is important that we pay attention to the detail of what will soon be the Scotland Act and get on with the change."
However, the Scottish government's minister for strategy, Bruce Crawford, said the legislation could have gone further.
He told the BBC: "The bill does give us some useful additional powers on air weapons, on drink driving, with speeding, although on taxation powers and income tax, on stamp duty, on landfill taxes, it's more limited. It's not quite as big a deal as I heard Michael Moore making out."

Summary: Royal Assent has been given to the Scotland Bill, making it the Scotland Act 2012.
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Article: The way Wales is funded from Westminster is just one of the familiar issues being debated behind-the-scenes in the 1980s.
Then the main arguments were prompted by a feeling within Whitehall that what was known then as "the territorials formula" (better known today as the Barnett formula) was too generous to Scotland. Margaret Thatcher ordered a review but the formula survives to this day.
The "north-south divide" was on the agenda, although the head of Mrs Thatcher's policy unit described it as a "myth". One suggestion was that Manchester could be projected more vigorously, although no-one used the phrase "northern powerhouse".
I was surprised by the extent of opposition within Mrs Thatcher's government to the Cardiff Bay barrage, although her Welsh Secretary Nicholas Edwards (now Lord Crickhowell) insists there is a full account in his memoirs (page 48).
The newly-released files show how officials thought he pursued his project - "the Edwards barrage" - without consulting colleagues or the Treasury. There is a sense that he was trying to bounce the cabinet into supporting the barrage. Mrs Thatcher's "the scheme just hasn't been worked out enough" note reveals her fear of "an elaborate and expensive presentation".
But the barrage was (eventually) built, and opened long after Thatcher and Crickhowell had left frontline politics.

Summary: Anyone covering 21st Century politics stumbling across the latest releases from the Thatcher government files will be hit by a strong sense of deja vu.
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Article: Jo Deering died in 2011, aged 52,  just months after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Under-fire Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust admitted it could have made better decisions about her care.
However, Ms Deering's sister, Maureen Rickman, said the trust's findings "deserved to be binned".
In December, the BBC revealed that the trust, which provides services to about 45,000 people in Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, had failed to investigate hundreds of unexpected deaths since 2011.
Ms Deering, from New Milton, Hampshire, had paranoid schizophrenia and was discharged from hospital two weeks after being sectioned.
She was sent home where she was the main carer for her 89-year-old mother, who had dementia. Four months later she took her own life.
Her family said the trust should not have allowed her to go home while she was still ill.
In its 2012 report, the trust said the medical team based at Waterford House who cared for Ms Deering should "be commended for their ongoing efforts to work with Joanna and her whole family in as an inclusive a way as possible, despite significant complications".
Ms Rickman said: "There isn't an investigation here, nothing of the sort. I could have carried out a better investigation myself to be quite frank."
She added: "It deserves to be binned - nobody would have known anything from this at all, there is nothing to take away from this other than a load of psycho babble and twaddle."
In a statement, Dr Lesley Stevens, medical director at the trust, said the report found its "decision-making process about granting leave, and how we communicated this with Jo and her family, could have been better".
"Robust actions to learn from this incident were fully implemented at the time," she added.
She said the trust had provided community support to help Ms Deering with her role as a carer.
"The way we investigate and learn when things go wrong, has changed substantially," she added.

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A more powerful earthquake has rocked the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto in the middle of the night, a day after an earlier tremor killed nine people.

Article: It was an understated reaction from the woman likely to go down in history as the person who rattled President Jacob Zuma more than any other figure in contemporary South Africa, exposed the growing fissures in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and went from being a shy trade unionist to an internationally feted global leader.
Ms Madonsela's inquiries over her years in office as public protector have led to the sacking of some of the most senior figures in the country.
She has investigated police chiefs, opposition politicians - and even the president himself over multi-million dollar security upgrades to his private Nkandla home.
It was probably not a surprise that on Friday, the woman many just call Thuli spent her final hours in office in court, seeking to defend her country's hard won democratic ideals and the release of her interim report on corruption and cronyism - what's rather clumsily called "state capture" here.
In short, it expected to describe how unelected businessmen - who allegedly wield huge influence over President Zuma - were able to call the shots on who should and should not get a ministerial job.
Much of her interim report is believed to focus on a family known as the Guptas, but the practice of patronage politics and opaque practices over the awarding of government contracts and jobs goes much deeper than just one family.
For some, it is perhaps surprising that the softly spoken mother of two has survived seven years in her role. But it is a credit to South Africa's robust constitution that the public protector has withstood attempts to remove her, harm her physically with death threats and smear her name.
If anything, her popularity has grown, with a prominent international think-tank recently voting her among the world's top five most "extraordinary women".
In her most recent investigation, she has been accused by the Guptas' lawyers of abusing her position and overshadowing the legal process.
Others say she has overstepped the mark, with the ANC Youth League dismissing her...

Summary: When Thuli Madonsela's daughter asked her over breakfast how it felt to be "South Africa's biggest tell-tale", the public protector just smiled.
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Article: The garment is the most popular women's wear in India and is sold in big and small shops across the country.
But Delhi-based fashion designer Rimzim Dadu took nearly two years to create her silicon Jamdani sari as part of an initiative to "reinvent" Indian textiles.
The Jamdani weaving tradition comes from the Bengal region in eastern India and Bangladesh. It is one of the most time and labour-intensive forms of handloom. Jamdani is a fine muslin cloth on which decorative motifs are woven on the loom, typically in grey and white.
But Ms Dadu used silicon sheets and cut them into fine threads to weave her Jamdani sari.
"Silicon is a very delicate and elastic material. I took long silicon rubber sheets, shredded them into very fine yarns and then hand-wove them into a Jamdani sari," she explains.
Her work is part of an ongoing exhibition called "Fracture: Indian textiles, new conversations" in a Delhi suburb. It seeks to redefine Indian craft for global and domestic audiences.
Indian textiles are known and loved all over the world for their detail and craft.
The exhibit's message says that Indian textiles are unparalleled because of their extraordinary diversity in aesthetics and techniques. They straddle the multiple genres of arts, design and manufacturing.
Then why reinvent?
Ms Dadu says India has a brilliant heritage of textiles and craft "but felt the time was right to have a fresh perspective".
"The exhibit is about exploring our own potential and pushing our own boundaries. We are trying to find out what more can we do with our heritage," she adds.
Exhibition curator Mayank Mansingh Kaul agrees.
"There is a great sense of nostalgia about Indian textiles. But we wanted to find out what breaking away from traditions means," he says.
"We want to tell the world that India is just not a manufacturing hub for global brands, but it can emerge with its own innovations and compete with the world," he adds.
Swati Kalsi, another participating textile artist, has been practising the craft of Sujani for many years...

Summary: Can it take two years to make a piece of traditional Indian garment sari?
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Article: Claire Sugden said the review would look at the "legislative framework" for certain categories of crime and other issues, such as unduly lenient sentences.
The minister said sentencing did not just affect the offender, but victims, families and the wider community.
Ms Sugden said recommendations would be put out to consultation.
She said sentencing played a "major part" in how the criminal justice system as a whole was perceived and "impacts on public confidence in the delivery of justice".
"I am aware of concerns that have been expressed from time to time about sentencing in some individual cases," she said.
"While such cases represent a very small part of the everyday work of the courts, they can have a significant impact on public perception and confidence in the justice system and the sentencing process.
"That is why I have decided that a comprehensive review of sentencing policy is needed."
The review will consider the following areas:
The minister stressed it was not a review of sentencing decisions, as in each individual case it was a matter for the judiciary and the courts.
"It is essential that their independence is maintained," she added.
"However, it is my responsibility to ensure the effectiveness of the legislative framework within which individual sentencing decisions are made, and, along with the Lord Chief Justice's programme of action, to seek to ensure that there is confidence in how those decisions are reached."

Summary: The justice minister has announced a major review of sentencing in Northern Ireland.
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Article: The train was designed by architect Kazuyo Sejima and has semi-transparent and mirrored surfaces to help it blend into the background.
The company who make the trains said that they wanted the carriages to feel like a living room, so that passengers can feel relaxed.
It's expected to be rolled out in 2018.
Japan often uses the latest technology on its trains, which are considered some of the best and quickest in the world.

Summary: Look closely, and you might be able to see this new 'invisible' train, unveiled in Japan.
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Article: Students on teacher training courses in West Yorkshire are taken around primary schools to meet staff and children to entice them to work in the city.
The council said 58% of primary schools and 63% of secondary schools in Bradford faced recruitment problems.
The Department for Education said it was investing "hundreds of millions in teacher recruitment".
In December, Ofsted's chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw said Bradford's schools were in the lowest-achieving 10 authorities at both primary and secondary level.
Of the 100,000 pupils in city schools, 40,000 were in schools rated as "less than good" and 8,000 of these were in schools labelled as "inadequate".
John Howarth, from the Bradford branch of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said: "Bradford is a challenging place to work but it's also exciting."
The council said there were not enough people applying for teaching posts and problems with the quality of applicants.
It said recruitment was tougher in inner-city areas and schools rated poorly by Ofsted.
Additionally, a council survey of 600 teachers found more than half were considering leaving their jobs.
The bus tours, thought to be unique to Bradford, are intended to "dispel myths" about the city's schools.
Mr Howarth, who taught in Bradford for 25 years, said: "It can be challenging, there is a lot of migration from Eastern Europe and issues with poverty. But there are huge rewards from making a difference to the life of a child and helping them in their education."
Former Bradford head teacher Sara Rawnsley, who has been appointed by the council to tackle the recruitment problem, said: "I took a group of students from Leeds Beckett University on a bus tour to an inner city school and they had a really negative image about what it was going to be like.
"Bradford gets a bad reputation for being challenging but, after they'd seen the school for themselves, they came away with a totally different view."
Ms Rawnsley said the tours had been a "tremendous success" and some 100 final year trainee...

Summary: Trainee teachers are being given bus tours of schools in Bradford in a bid to help tackle a recruitment crisis.
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Article: The magnitude-7.3 quake hit at a depth of 10km (six miles) at 01:25 on Saturday (15:25 GMT on Friday) in Kyushu region. At least three people died and hundreds were injured.
A village has been evacuated after a dam collapsed, media reports say.
A tsunami warning was issued, and lifted some 50 minutes later.
Japan is regularly hit by earthquakes but stringent building codes mean that they rarely cause significant damage.
This new earthquake in Kyushu was much bigger and hit a wider area than the one that struck Kumamoto on Thursday night, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.
In one town near the coast, the city hall has been so badly damaged there are fears it could collapse. A hospital has been evacuated because it is no longer safe.
Thousands of people have fled on to the streets and into parks - where they are huddled under blankets looking dazed and afraid, our correspondent says.
But there are numerous reports of people trapped inside buildings, including at least 60 inside an old people's home.
Public broadcaster NHK says the dam collapsed in the Nishihara village.
Television pictures showed thousands of people filling streets and parks, looking dazed across the region.
NHK had warned of sea waves of up to 1m (3ft).
Japan's nuclear authority said the Sendai nuclear plant was not damaged.
The quake was originally assessed as magnitude 7.1 but revised upwards to 7.3 later.
Gavin Hayes, a research geophysicist with the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Colorado, told the BBC that the latest earthquake would hamper the earlier rescue operation that was already under way.
He said more damage could be expected as the earthquake had been shallower and the fault-line had been much longer.
"The ground surface would have moved in the region of 4-5m. So, you are talking very intense shaking over quite a large area. And that's why we'll probably see a significant impact from this event."
The Associated Press news agency said guests at the Ark Hotel near the Kumamoto Castle, which was damaged, woke up and...

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At least 150 Syrian dissidents have met publicly for the first time at a hotel in the capital, Damascus, to discuss the current crisis in their country.

Article: The new group's leader has been named as Hashim al-Sheikh, who previously served as the head of the powerful Islamist rebel group, Ahrar al-Sham.
Ahrar al-Sham itself has refused to join the new body and has been at loggerheads with JFS in northern Syria.
On 9 February, al-Shaikh delivered the group's first leadership message in which he insisted the new entity was independent and not an extension of former organisations and factions.
By reinventing itself again, JFS appears to be trying to distance itself from its al-Qaeda past and embed itself more deeply within the Syrian insurgency.
No mention has been made of JFS leader Abu Mohammed al-Julani in any of the new group's communications. But he is widely believed to be serving as its military commander.
JFS announced the creation of "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham" (which translates in English as Liberation of Levant Organisation) in a statement that was released on 28 January via its channel on the messaging app Telegram.
The statement indicated that the groups which had agreed to join would dissolve themselves and "merge fully" into the new entity.
This was further reiterated in al-Shaikh's recent message which described the new body as a "melting pot for all factions".
In addition to JFS, Tahrir al-Sham founding groups included: Nur al-Din Zinki Movement (one of the most important opposition factions in Aleppo); jihadist Ansar al-Din Front; the Homs-based Jaysh al-Sunnah; and Liwa al-Haqq (operates in Idlib, Aleppo and Hamah).
The new entity also received the endorsement of six prominent Syria-based jihadist clerics, including the charismatic Saudi-born Abdullah al-Muhaisini. The clerics signed a separate statement announcing their intention to join Tahrir al-Sham.
Since the creation of the new entity, JFS has issued no new propaganda under the JFS brand, suggesting that it has been dissolved.
The head of the new group, Abu-Jabir, had been appointed as Ahrar al-Sham leader after the group's entire leadership was wiped out in a bomb blast in September 2014. He held...

Summary: The Syrian jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), known as al-Nusra Front until it broke off formal ties with al-Qaeda last July, has merged with four smaller Syrian factions and rebranded itself as "Tahrir al-Sham".
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Article: McNamara, 44, has just led England to a 2-1 series win over New Zealand.
His part-time contract expires on 31 December and a two-year deal to remain as assistant coach with NRL side Sydney Roosters will not be signed until McNamara's England future is resolved.
"We will talk about what has worked for me and what has worked for the RFL," he said. "Then the decision will be made."
It had been reported that McNamara's extension with the Roosters had been agreed.
The former Bradford Bulls boss initially took charge of England on a full-time basis but has combined the position with being attack coach at the Roosters since 2013.
"The RFL were happy with me doing both jobs last time round," said McNamara, who is set to return home to Sydney on Thursday.
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Saturday's 20-14 win at the DW Stadium completed a 2-1 series win for England against the world's number one ranked side.
It was England's first series triumph against a major nation since 2007 and came after McNamara presided over narrow losses against the Kiwis in both the 2013 World Cup and 2014 Four Nations.
Those defeats led to McNamara's position being questioned by some, and last week former Great Britain international Garry Schofield called for his removal.
The Kiwis had a number of players, including half-back Shaun Johnson and captain Simon Mannering, missing through injury on their recent tour but McNamara shrugged off the criticism.
"When you are an international coach people criticise and have opinions. People call for your head," McNamara told BBC Sport.
"I understand that. Does it interest me? Not one bit.
"Who was the inexperienced team anyway? On Saturday, New Zealand had 255 Test caps between their 17 players. We had 206."
Including the record 84-4 win against France on 24 October, England conceded 39 points in their four autumn internationals.
And McNamara feels that strong defence is crucial to success against Australia and New Zealand.
"In England, teams tend to get rated by how many points they...

Summary: England coach Steve McNamara will speak to the RFL about his future this week before returning to Australia.
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Article: Labour had argued that the move was necessary to "restore public trust" in politics following a cash for access scandal.
But the government said the motion was "unclear" and more about creating headlines than providing a solution.
MPs sided with the government to defeat the Labour motion by 287 to 219.  The government's amendment was approved.
Labour said it would honour its commitment and amend its own standing orders to ensure the ban applied to its candidates and MPs.
The debate in the House of Commons was sparked by allegations against Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
The two former foreign secretaries deny wrongdoing after being secretly recorded apparently offering their services to a private company for cash.
Introducing the opposition motion, shadow Commons leader Angela Eagle said it was time to make a "decisive break" with the status quo on members' remunerated interests.
She said the public deserved to be "safe in the knowledge" that every MP was working and acting in their interests - and not for somebody paying them.
Ms Eagle said the current situation was "untenable", adding that the rules were "riddled with grey areas and open to endless convenient interpretation".
That is why the House should support Labour's plan to stop MP from holding  a directorship or paid consultancy from the next Parliament, she argued.
But the Conservative leader of the House, William Hague, contended that "by far the greatest single outside influence" on MPs was union influence on the Labour Party.
He said out of the candidates selected for 150 Labour target seats, 83 were linked to the unions, and 49 of those to Unite.
Labour's motion was calculated to create a headline rather than to solve a problem, he argued, adding that it showed little understanding of business and was "unclear".
He warned that it could create a House of Commons "consisting entirely of people who are either rich or professional politicians throughout their lives".
While not mentioned in the motion, Labour is said to be mooting the idea of...

Summary: The House of Commons has defeated Labour's call for a ban on MPs holding paid directorships or consultancies.
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Article: They felt they were unfairly targeted with email marketing and TV shopping at night when their defences were down.
The report's authors, the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, said shoppers should be allowed to set "opening hours" for online accounts.
A retailers' trade body said no shop deliberately targeted the vulnerable.
Internet shopping is valued at Â£1bn every week, with sales representing about 15% of all retail activity in the UK.
The report said that 24-hour online shopping meant "consumers who struggle to control their spending find themselves at greater risk than ever before".
Retailers send personalised emails to customers, based on previous purchases, which may include short-term discounts and promotions.
The report claimed that while most retailers targeted their marketing for first thing in the morning - from 06:00 to 09:00 - or early evening - from 17:00 to 22:00, a few seemed to frequently send emails at night - from midnight to 05:00.
Some mental health problems manifest themselves in compulsive buying, making purchases which are later regretted and could lead them into a spiral of debt.
So-called crisis spending often occurs during periods of poor mental health and was "motivated by emotional or psychological needs and processes rather than material need", the report said.
"Some people experiencing mental health problems find it difficult to return online purchases. They often feel too ashamed or guilty about their behaviour, or may face practical barriers such as social phobia preventing them from going to the post office."
The institute called for:
Bryan Johnston, from the British Retail Consortium, which represents retailers, said: "This report raises some serious issues which retailers consider carefully, but no retailers deliberately target vulnerable customers.
"The timing of marketing varies greatly, but mails are generally timed to land when they are most likely to be seen and never with a view to exploiting a particular vulnerability. All customers are able to opt out of...

Summary: Late-night messages sent to shoppers with mental health problems leave them vulnerable to financially-crippling impulse buys, a report has suggested.
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Article: The actor, who was in Los Angeles when he was offered the role, said he knew he was going to star in the Old Vic production two pages into the script.
"When you read something that great the decision's already made," he continued.
Art, in which three friends fall out over the purchase of a painting, runs until 18 February.
Sewell, who last appeared in the West End in 2013, said he would not have done the show had his young daughter not been able to join him in London for Christmas.
"I couldn't have taken the job if that hadn't happened," he told the BBC this week. "It's the most important thing for me."
The 49-year-old also revealed there were "limited possibilities" for him to reprise his role as Lord Melbourne in the second series of ITV's regal drama Victoria.
The original London production of Yasmina Reza's Art opened in 1996 with Sir Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney and Ken Stott.
The play went on to be staged on Broadway and translated into 20 languages.
Regular cast changes, meanwhile, kept it running in the West End until 1999.
Director Matthew Warchus said enough time had now elapsed for the show to be brought back at the Old Vic, where he is artistic director.
"We're at the point now where we've left enough time," he told the BBC after Tuesday's press night.
"We've got actors the right age who were never in it, and people in the audience who have never seen it."
Paul Ritter and Tim Key join Sewell in what Warchus describes as "a play about men's dysfunctional way of relating to each other".
"It looks like a well-behaved boulevard comedy on the surface, but it is actually quite violent, wild and passionate," he continued.
Reviews of Warchus 's production have been broadly positive, with the Guardian applauding what it called a "finely shaded character study".
"A play that in 1996 eventually turned into a revolving door for celebrities can now be seen in all its complex purity," wrote critic Michael Billington.
The Times said the play felt "absolutely spanking fresh", while the Independent praised the...

Summary: Rufus Sewell has joked that starring in Art in London is "very inconvenient" - as it required moving his loved ones across the Atlantic for Christmas.
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Article: The meeting's organiser, Louai Hussein, called for an end to the government's brutal crackdown on protesters and for a peaceful transition to democracy.
The event took place after government officials said they would not object.
Afterwards, the opposition was invited to joint talks to discuss the framework for a national dialogue conference.
The state news agency, Sana, said amendments to the constitution would be on the agenda at the conference on 10 July, including Article 8, which grants the Baath Party unique status as the "leader of state and society".
Participants would also examine proposed new laws on political parties, elections, local administration and the press, it added.
Sana said there was no alternative but to "open the door wide" to all Syrians, and to take part in building a "democratic, pluralistic society meeting the aspirations of the people".
The BBC's Lina Sinjab in Damascus says the government is making a show of looking for the middle ground to solve the crisis, but they are also seen to be playing for time.
Monday's meeting at the Semiramis hotel in Damascus was attended by several leading opposition figures, including Mr Hussein, Anwar al-Bunni and Michel Kilo, who have served time in prison for their political activities.
They began by singing the national anthem and holding a moment of silence to honour those killed in the revolt, which represents the most serious challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's rule since he succeeded his father in 2000.
In the opening address, Mr Hussein said it was an unprecedented event, and that no such conference had been held in Syria for decades.
"Those attending this meeting are not armed, [as they are not] terrorists or saboteurs," he said.
"We are meeting today... to put forward a vision about how to end tyranny and ensure a peaceful and secure transition to the hoped-for state: the state of freedom, democracy and equality."
In a final communique, the participants declared their support for the "popular uprising seeking a peaceful transition to...

Summary:


A former deputy chief constable has said it may be time to reconsider de-criminalising cannabis.

Article: Tories Michael Gove and Boris Johnson and Labour's Gisela Stuart wrote in the Sun that the tax on energy bills cannot be scrapped because of EU rules.
But Chancellor George Osborne accused them of "fantasy land" economics.
Remain campaigners said Vote Leave were promising a "make-believe land of milk and honey" if the UK left the EU.
There is one week left to register to vote in the EU referendum on 23 June.
In their article, the Vote Leave politicians said they would seek to spend some of the cash saved by quitting the EU on cutting VAT from household gas and electricity bills, a tax imposed by the then Conservative government in 1993.
This issue covers energy availability and environmental protections.
"The least wealthy are hit particularly hard," they wrote.
"The poorest households spend three times more of their income on household energy bills than the richest households spend. As long as we are in the EU, we are not allowed to cut this tax.
"When we Vote Leave, we will be able to scrap this unfair and damaging tax.
"It isn't right that unelected bureaucrats in Brussels impose taxes on the poorest and elected British politicians can do nothing."
VAT on domestic fuel bills was cut to 5% under the Labour government - the lowest rate allowed under EU rules.
In 2014, the average bill for a customer of a big six energy firm was £1,190.
Mr Gove told the BBC it had been a "mistake" of the previous Major government to introduce the tax, adding: "The Conservative government at the time did so because of the economic damage that the exchange rate mechanism of the European Union had caused.
"I think it is now time to acknowledge that that was an error."
The justice secretary said it would be up to the prime minister and the chancellor to axe VAT, but said he backed such a move because it was "an unfair tax that hits the poorest people hardest".
Mr Osborne tweeted his attack on Vote Leave's claim, saying leaving the EU would lead to a smaller economy, "a hole in public finances" and higher taxes including...

Summary: Leading figures in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union say they want to be able to scrap VAT on fuel to help the poorest households.
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Article: A review of the college at Garverville, east Belfast, was ordered after 54 student officers were found to have cheated in their exams.
It described the culture as "pseudo-militaristic", with "an unhealthy leaning towards punitive discipline".
The PSNI accepted 50 recommended changes.
Chief Constable George Hamilton and other members of the senior PSNI members will meet members of the Policing Board to discuss an implementation plan to address concerns raised.
A number of changes to the 22-week training course were introduced immediately.
These included the practice of students marching to and from classes and the use of military-style "show parades" as a form of discipline.
Groups of students will in future be referred to as "classes", and not "squads".
The PSNI plan sets out 34 changes it hopes to have implemented by the end of March next year.
In a statement earlier this week, the Policing Board said the report's conclusion, that the pervading culture in the college was "not conducive to a safe and professional learning environment", was "a matter of most serious concern".
A special meeting of the board was convened for Thursday to discuss the report's findings and the police response.
All training at Garnerville has been suspended since the exam-cheating scandal was uncovered on 7 August.
More than 200 new recruits have had their training delayed, and a planned recruitment drive was also put on hold while this review was completed.
The Chief Constable has said several times in recent months that a failure to recruit new officers will have a serious impact on the operational capability of the PSNI.
George Hamilton is expected to ask for the approval of the Policing Board to restart training at the college, and to proceed with a recruitment campaign in January.

Summary: PSNI commanders will meet the Policing Board later to discuss a report that said training for new officers was at times like a military-style boot camp.
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Article: The Care Quality Commission (CQC) found that care at Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust was "good" but it judged safety in the urgent care service "to be inadequate".
Inspectors said people were waiting too long to be assessed at minor injuries units and there were safety concerns.
The trust said it had taken on board the CQC's findings.
The trust runs hospitals at Cirencester, Stroud General and Tewkesbury Community Hospital, Minor Injuries and Illness Units (MIIU), dental clinics and community services.
The inspection, carried out in June, July and August, found that patients were being seen by "unregistered practitioners".
Sir Mike Richards, the CQC's chief inspector of hospitals, said community teams were "overstretched" because there were not enough experienced nurses and it was concerned about safety in the urgent care service.
"We were not assured that people were adequately protected from the risk of harm, and we were not convinced that this had been addressed adequately yet by the trust board," he said.
"While there are many good services, we have also been very clear about those areas for improvement, which I expect the trust to address as a priority."
Dr Marion Andrews-Evans, from the NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, said the trust was working to ensure patients "receive the right care, in the right place at the right time".
"We know that the trust has taken immediate action to improve arrangements for initial triage of patients within Community Minor Injury and Illness Units," she said.
"We also know that they are working hard to recruit and train additional emergency nurse practitioners to support increased use of MIIU services."

Summary: An NHS trust that runs seven Gloucestershire hospitals has been rated as requiring improvement.
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Article: Adrian Galliers, 50, from Guernsey, was found guilty of 10 counts of fraud over a four-and-a-half year period.
Galliers carried out the deception through his company Guernsey Financial Consultants Limited.
The Royal Court heard he had taken money from his clients' pension funds after suffering financial difficulties.
The company was fined £42,000 last year by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission after concerns were raised about the way the business was being run.
The court heard how Galliers initially moved money with the intent of paying it back to his clients, but the situation spiralled out of control.
The prosecution said three of the people Galliers had defrauded were long term friends who "trusted him implicitly".
Will Giles told the court one individual had known the financial adviser for 20 years and they had a long and well established friendship.
Galliers had suffered from depression and the GFSC fine had impacted him greatly, it was said.
He was described as being too "proud" and "ignorant" to admit the extent of his problems.
Judge Russell Finch sentenced him to three years for each of the 10 counts of fraud, to run concurrently.
Mr Finch said Galliers was trusted and regarded as a friend by his victims, but in reality he stole from them.
The "wholly despicable" offences reflected badly on the local pensions and insurance sectors, he added.

Summary: A financial adviser who defrauded clients out of £157k has been jailed for three years.
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Article: The quote, attributed to Peter Pan's Kirriemuir-born author JM Barrie, is etched in stone beneath a statue of the character in the town's square.
However, an internet search by local historian David Orr revealed the quote may have come from a Disney movie.
Angus Council will replace it with one "incontrovertibly traced" to Barrie.
The engraved quote reads: "Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."
Mr Orr said: "When I read it, I thought 'that's quite good, I've never heard of that'."
"So, I googled it to see the full quote and the first thing it took me to was the JM Barrie website and there was debate about it."
One theory is that the quote is an amalgamation of lines from Steven Spielberg's 1991 film Hook.
Mr Orr consulted other Kirriemuir residents, including Sandra Affleck, an authority on the Peter Pan author.
He said: "I'm no expert on Barrie by any means, but a lot of the local folk are, and they came back with the same answer.
"I thought, if Sandra hasn't heard of it, what are the chances?"
Barrie, who was born in Kirriemuir in 1860, published the story of "the boy who wouldn't grow up" in a 1904 play and a 1911 novel.
Mr Orr said: "I suspect there has been someone doing more checking behind the scenes.
"They're trying to draw attention to the Peter Pan statue in the square and it's surrounded by this quote.
"It's an admirable line but if it's not actually from Peter Pan, it's a bit strange."
A spokesman for Angus Council said: "We are grateful to one of our museum visitors for raising this with us.
"While this quotation has been widely attributed to the famous author there is a lack of absolute certainty over its origins.
"As such, we feel it is appropriate to replace it with one that can be incontrovertibly traced to the work of the great JM Barrie."

Summary: A quotation at the foot of a Peter Pan statue in Angus will be replaced after a "lack of certainty" over its origin.
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Article: Alan McQuillan told the BBC the current attitude to drugs was "creating a cash cow for organised crime, especially in relation to cannabis".
He said police needed to focus on paramilitaries as the source of the drugs problem in Northern Ireland.
The former policeman was taking part in a BBC Talkback discussion about drug dealing in Northern Ireland.
"I think there is real scope for de-criminalising cannabis," he said. "The time has come to consider it."
Mr McQuillan said the focus needed to be on teaching parents and children about the reality of the drugs trade.
"We need to invest in education, to be aware that often the people who are dealing drugs are corrupted young people who are paying for a habit by dealing to other children," he said.
Former Ulster Unionist MLA Adrian Cochrane-Watson told a local newspaper on Wednesday he would "break the legs" of any drug dealers he caught.
He was speaking after a family emergency in which a young relative became unwell after smoking cannabis.
Speaking in the Radio Ulster discussion on Wednesday, Mr Cochrane-Watson said he made no apology for his outspoken remarks.
He said: "When I see drug dealers driving about in their fancy sports cars - money to burn - it does make me angry.
"When I know who these people are, it makes me frustrated.
"If I had got my hands on the guy who dealt these drugs to 13-year-old kids, I'd rather the police would have gotten there before me."

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For three weeks Alexander Litvinenko desperately tried to fight off the radiation that was destroying his body from within.

Article: Sherratt worked with Blues head coach Danny Wilson at Bristol.
"I'm thrilled to be able to take the opportunity to work at Cardiff Blues and alongside Danny once again," said Sherratt.
Paul John will take on the role of skills coach while he studies for a master's degree, and Graham Steadman will continue as defence coach.
Steadman will be assisted by Richard Hodges.
Sherratt joined Bristol's coaching staff in 2011 having previously worked with Worcester.
"I'm delighted that Matt Sherratt will join us," said Wilson.
"I worked closely with him at Bristol and he always impressed me with his attention to detail and we share a similar coaching philosophy and view of the game."

Summary: Bristol's Matt Sherratt will join Cardiff Blues as attack and backs coach at the end of the season.
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Article: Final details are still being worked out, but the companies said the deal had "compelling strategic logic" and boosted their market position.
Paddy Power shareholders would own 52% of the combined business, with Betfair investors owning the remaining 48%.
The combined business would have annual revenues of some £1.1bn.
"Discussions remain ongoing regarding the other terms of the possible merger," a statement said on Wednesday.
The new group would be the UK online market leader with a 16% share, according to industry data, passing a merged Ladbrokes/Coral on 14%, as well as William Hill and the privately owned Bet365.
Shares in Betfair soared 17% to £30.60 on Wednesday, while Paddy Power jumped more than 18% in Dublin.
If the deal goes ahead, Breon Corcoran, boss of Betfair, would become chief executive of the combined group, while his counterpart at Paddy Power, Andy McCue, would become chief operating officer.
The combined company plans to retain the "distinctive and complementary" Betfair and Paddy Power brands in Europe.
Mr Corcoran said: "We fundamentally believe this industry is all about scale. By putting together two distinct but phenomenally strong brands, we'll have a market leading position in the UK, Ireland, Australia and in the United States."
Cormac McCarthy, Paddy Power's chief financial officer, said the combination was an "attractive opportunity".
"The scale and capability is unsurpassed and would leave us in a much better place to compete in our current markets, where competition is intense," he said.
Given the complementary nature of the two companies, he was confident that any competition concerns could be overcome.
Paddy Power was founded in 1988, when three Irish bookmakers merged. It has 350 betting shops and is the third-largest online bookmaker.
Betfair, in contrast, is offering a marketplace - or betting exchange - that lets customers bypass the need for a traditional bookmaker.
Based on their closing prices on Tuesday, Betfair was worth £2.4bn and Dublin-listed Paddy Power was worth...

Summary: Betfair and Paddy Power are set to merge in a £5bn deal that would create one of the world's biggest online betting and gaming companies.
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Article: Bridgend MP Madeleine Moon said a constituent found he had lost Â£50 from his month's pay for "toilet visits".
She said it seemed staff were "fined" for comfort breaks despite being given "copious amounts of water" to help them keep speaking to customers.
Trade unions have called for workers to be given specific legal rights to use toilets without pay deductions.
During business questions at Westminster, Ms Moon told House of Commons leader William Hague: "A constituent found his payslip contained a deduction of Â£50.
"When he asked why he was told it was for toilet visits.
"It appears that call centre staff, while provided with copious amounts of water to keep their voices lubricated, are also then fined for going to the toilet.
"Can we have a debate on the toilet tax?"
Mr Hague replied: "Well, that is a new proposition for the House to have a debate on.
"I'm sure you will wish to pursue this directly - I'm sure you are doing, you're nodding to that - with the company concerned.
"If it was a widespread issue or problem there might well be demand for this in the House but I hope you're able to resolve this for your constituents without us having to debate it on the floor of the House."
The TUC recently noted that workers do not have a legal right to go to the toilet during working hours without losing pay, and called for the law to be changed.
It said: "There is also a need for a specific legal right to use toilets in the employer's time [as opposed to the employee's time] without a deduction in pay, and without any harassment."

Summary: Call centre staff are being hit with a "toilet tax" for leaving their desks, an MP has claimed.
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Article: The Syrian National Council (SNC) comprises groups from across Syria's fractured opposition landscape. Chairman Burhan Ghalioun has said the SNC unites the "forces of opposition and the peaceful revolution".
The SNC is a coalition of seven Syrian opposition factions aimed at offering a credible alternative to Mr Assad's regime. Its formation recalls that of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC), which earned international recognition through its opposition to the rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and is now leading the country's affairs.
Ghalioun has said the body is "an independent group personifying the sovereignty of the Syrian people in their struggle for liberty" and is "open to all Syrians".
The SNC plans to elect a chairman and stage a general assembly of 190 members next month.
Among the seven groups included are:
•The Damascus Declaration for Democratic Change grouping - a movement born during the so-called "Damascus Spring" of 2000/2001 which called for broad democratic reform, and was suppressed by the Assad regime.
•The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood - A banned Islamic political party, membership of which can be punishable by death under Syrian law.
•Local Coordination Committees - Grass-roots movements that have led demonstrations across the country.
•Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) - a coalition of 40 opposition blocs.
•Kurdish factions, tribal leaders and independent figures make up the rest of the council.
Since May, there have been several attempts to unite the various anti-government movements in Syria.
An early incarnation of the council was established in August during the opposition conference in Istanbul, but failed to unify the ethnically, religiously and politically fragmented factions of the opposition. There were a number of disputed issues and the Local Coordination Committees declared that the council did not represent them.
Opposition leaders like Ghalioun insisted on the importance of achieving unity within the council and ensuring that all factions were adequately...

Summary: Opposition groups in Syria have announced the formation of a united front against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Article: The 23-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in Preston Road, Whittle-le-Woods, at about 14:45 BST on Sunday.
He had been riding towards Preston when his Honda motorcycle was in collision with a BMW at the junction with Factory Lane, Lancashire Police said.
Officers have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
The driver of the car, a 40-year-old woman from Bolton, suffered whiplash and was treated for shock.

Summary: A man has been killed after his motorcycle was in collision with a car in a Lancashire village.
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Article: His wife Marina can still recall the last time she saw him. He was smiling in what she recalls was a sad way. She said she would be back tomorrow.
"He suddenly just said 'I love you so much'," she remembers.
"I said 'Yes, of course. I love you too'."
But when she got home, she received a call from the hospital telling her to rush back in. She did not get the chance to speak to him again.
As he lay dying in his hospital bed, Alexander Litvinenko had remained the trained operative he had always been and tried to recall for police every detail that might hold a clue to his poisoning.
For the police, he was something unique - a living murder victim - a man who was going to die but had time to talk to them.
So who did he hold responsible for the mysterious illness which was taking such a terrible toll on his body? "Everything that happened to him and he was able to speak - able to sign - he said Putin was responsible for his death," his widow told the BBC.
The public inquiry will examine the central question - who was responsible for what was described by a lawyer in a previous hearing as 'an act of state sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of London'?
It was one of the most remarkable and sensitive murder cases in modern times.
"This inquiry was different from any other investigation that I've ever been involved in," says Peter Clarke, who at the time ran the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command which handled the investigation.
"It was not only a murder inquiry but there were other key areas that we had to think about: public safety - over 40 sites of radioactive contamination in public places, on public transport, aircraft, offices, restaurants... And then there are the international dimensions, the diplomatic dimensions and the intelligence areas that came into this inquiry."
Much is already known about the broad brush of events - that Alexander Litvinenko was killed by radioactive Polonium 210 and that two Russians, Alexander Lugovoi and Dimitri Kovtun, are believed by police to be...

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Palmyra, one of the archaeological jewels of the Middle East, is said to be under threat from Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria.

Article: Mohammed Rehman, 25, discussed targeting the London Underground and Westfield shopping centre on social media under the name "Silent Bomber".
He and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan were convicted of preparing terrorist acts.
Jailing them both for life at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Baker told Rehman he had been "determined to fulfil the Islamic State's call for jihad".
The couple's trial had heard how bomb-making chemicals were found at Rehman's Reading home, where he had filmed himself setting off a small explosion in the back garden.
He had been planning an attack to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 7 July London bombings, the trial was told.
The role of 24-year-old Khan was to fund the chemicals needed to make a "huge" bomb.
Rehman, who was also convicted of possessing an article for terrorist purposes, was a "prolific" user of Twitter, the trial was told, posting extremist rhetoric alongside images of homemade devices and instructional material.
One tweet from his account read: "I have rigged my house to blow at the push of a button by my bedside if the popo [police] try to raid man. Nobody gets in the way of my jihad."
The judge told Rehman that the reason for his conversion "may never be fully known", adding that he was satisfied he had intended to carry out an act of terrorism within the United Kingdom.
"The type of act which you envisaged not only encompassed the use of explosive substances which would be used to maximum effect so as to cause multiple injuries and fatalities, but specifically included a suicide bombing; an act which envisaged martyrdom, a notion specifically resurrected by Islamic State in order to encourage this type of venture," Mr Justice Baker said.
Ahead of the sentencing hearing, Khan had sent the judge a handwritten letter saying she had divorced Rehman a couple of weeks previously and that she should have "distanced myself from him a long time ago".
The judge rejected her argument, telling Khan: "I am satisfied that it was you who became interested in the theological...

Summary: A husband and wife who plotted a terror attack in London have been jailed for a minimum of 27 and 25 years.
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Article: The drop comes after Argentine Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said he would eliminate the foreign exchange restrictions that have propped up the peso since 2011.
After his announcement, markets opened with one dollar buying 14 pesos.
Analysts had predicted a fall of up to 30% from the previous controlled rate of 9.8 pesos to the dollar.
They said they expect it could fall to 14.5 pesos to the dollar. That is the rate at which the currency has been trading on the black market.
Argentine Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said that the country's central bank had been given the right to buy pesos if the exchange rate fell too rapidly.
But he said the restrictions needed to be removed to improve the country's ailing economy. Exchange controls would end for all businesses, who would be allowed to buy as many dollars as they needed.
But ordinary Argentines would still face restrictions on the amount of dollars they could buy a month.
Shop owners said consumers could cut spending in the short term as they see their purchasing power reduced, especially when it comes to dollar-denominated imports.
The previous government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner tried to end the buying of dollars four years ago, but prohibition simply fuelled the black economy.
Since then, informal street sellers in Buenos Aires offer foreign currency at much higher rates than the official one.
Argentines also found other creative ways to circumvent restrictions, from organised day-trips to neighbouring Uruguay to get US dollars from cash machines to Bitcoin trading.
The new policy may satisfy middle and upper-class Argentines who will now be able to get their dollars freely.
But they are also fearful of the consequences: higher prices and a potential devaluation of their currency.

Summary: Argentina's peso has lost about 30% of its value after the country lifted currency controls.
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Article: Attorney General Eric Holder said the alleged breaches were "significant" and demanded "an aggressive response".
US prosecutors say the officers stole trade secrets and internal documents from five companies and a labour union.
China denied the charges and warned the case would harm US-China relations.
By Carrie GracieBBC China editor
China always insists it is a victim of hacking, not a perpetrator. And when US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden appeared in Hong Kong a year ago with evidence of US hacking into Chinese networks, Beijing felt vindicated.
The US acknowledges that it conducts espionage but says unlike China it does not spy on foreign companies and pass what it finds to its own companies.
Beijing typically shrugs this off as a smear motivated by those who find its growing technological might hard to bear. But to see five named officers of the People's Liberation Army indicted by a US grand jury is not something that can be brushed aside so easily. China has already announced the suspension of co-operation with the US on an internet working group. And once it has had time to digest this loss of face, it is likely to consider more serious retaliation.
In Washington on Monday, Mr Holder said a grand jury had laid hacking charges against the Chinese nationals, the first against "known state actors for infiltrating US commercial targets by cyber means".
He identified the alleged victims as Westinghouse Electric, US Steel, Alcoa Inc, Allegheny Technologies, SolarWorld and the US Steelworkers Union.
"The alleged hacking appears to have been conducted for no reason other than to advantage state-owned companies and other interests in China, at the expense of businesses here in the United States," Mr Holder said.
He said the US government rejected economic espionage as a trade tactic.
"As President Obama has said on numerous occasions, we do not collect intelligence to provide a competitive advantage to US companies, or US commercial sectors," Mr Holder said.
In response to the charges, the Chinese...

Summary: The US has charged five Chinese army officers with hacking into private-sector American companies in a bid for competitive advantage, in the first cyber-espionage case of its kind.
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Article: It has long been suspected that rhyolites from the northern Preseli Hills helped build the monument.
But research by National Museum Wales and Leicester University has identified their source to within 70m (230ft) of Craig Rhos-y-felin, near Pont Saeson.
The museum's Dr Richard Bevins said the find would help experts work out how the stones were moved to Wiltshire.
For nine months Dr Bevins, keeper of geology at National Museum Wales, and Dr Rob Ixer of Leicester University collected and identified samples from rock outcrops in Pembrokeshire to try to find the origins of rhyolite debitage rocks that can be found at Stonehenge.
By detailing the mineral content and the textural relationships within the rock, a process known as petrography, they found that 99% of the samples could be matched to rocks found in this particular set of outcrops.
Rhyolitic rocks at Rhos-y-felin, between Ffynnon-groes (Crosswell) and Brynberian, differ from all others in south Wales, they said, which helps locate almost all of Stonehenge's rhyolites to within hundreds of square metres.
Within that area, the rocks differ on a scale of metres or tens of metres, allowing Dr Bevins and Dr Ixer to match some Stonehenge rock samples even more precisely to a point at the extreme north-eastern end of Rhos-y-felin.
Dr Rob Ixer of Leicester University called the discovery of the source of the rocks "quite unexpected and exciting".
"Being able to provenance any archaeologically significant rock so precisely is remarkable," he said.
"However, given continued perseverance, we are determined that we shall uncover the origins of most, if not all of the Stonehenge bluestones so allowing archaeologists to continue their speculations well into a third century."
With the location identified, archaeologists will now be able to dig to try and uncover how the stones from Pembrokeshire reached Stonehenge.
"Many have asked the question over the years, how the stones got from Pembrokeshire to Stonehenge," said Dr Bevins. "Was it human transport? Was it due to...

Summary: Experts say they have confirmed for the first time the precise origin of some of the rocks at Stonehenge.
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Article: But it is a slowdown from 7.7% growth in the final quarter of last year.
Other data released with the gross domestic product (GDP) figure showed industrial output rising 8.8% in March from one year ago.
Retail sales for the month of March spiked by 12.2%, underscoring China's efforts to boost economic growth via domestic consumption.
Last year China set its growth target for 2014 at 7.5%, part of efforts to stabilise the economy after years of fast-paced expansion.
China's growth data is closely watched around the region. A slowdown could hurt Asian economies especially those which export commodities and industrial components to the world's second largest economy.
By Martin PatienceBBC News, Beijing
China's Premier, Li Keqiang, is trying to downplay the fixation on GDP figures in the world's second largest economy. He's now stressing that the quality, rather than the quantity, of growth is what is important.
China's leaders have said they will tolerate slower growth while they push through major economic reforms which are designed to create new, better-paying jobs. There is the realisation that the old economic model, dependent upon investment-led growth and exports, has now run out of steam.
The leadership wants to see more domestic consumption to create more sustainable growth over the long-term. It wants the private sector to play a bigger role. But in any economic shake-up, there will be winners and losers.
Implementing the reforms will mean tackling entrenched economic interests - such as state-owned enterprises - that have gobbled up resources and done very well out of the old way of doing things.
In recent weeks, the government has announced a mini-stimulus to prop up flagging growth. But it has ruled out the type of the massive stimulus which jolted China's economy back to life following the global financial crisis.
Despite the challenges, the governments hopes to post growth of around 7.5% for this year.
A sluggish start for the year is not uncommon, due to the Lunar New Year holiday when many...

Summary: China's economy expanded by 7.4% in the first quarter of the year, better than what many were expecting.
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Article: The jihadists seized buildings on the eastern edge of the adjacent city of Tadmur on Thursday, but their push was reportedly halted by the Syrian army.
Syria's antiquities chief warned that if IS seizes the Unesco World Heritage site it will destroy everything there.
The group has ransacked and demolished several ancient sites in Iraq.
Palmyra has already suffered some damage during the four-year civil war.
It is situated in a strategically important area on the road between the capital, Damascus and the contested eastern city of Deir al-Zour, and close to gas fields
On Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that IS militants were mounting an assault on Tadmur, the modern town next to the ruins of Palmyra.
Twenty-six civilians in a village outside Tadmur were summarily killed by IS - at least 10 by beheading - on Thursday after being accused of collaborating with President Bashar al-Assad's government, Mr Abdul Rahman said.
IS itself claimed on Twitter that it had taken control of northern and eastern parts of Tadmur, and that it had shot down a Syrian air force MiG jet in the area.
Homs provincial governor Talal Barazi confirmed that al-Sukhanah, a town to the north-east, had fallen on Wednesday and said 1,800 families from the town were sheltering in Tadmur.
The Syrian Observatory said more than 70 soldiers and 40 militants had been killed in the battle for al-Sukhanah.
Rising out of the desert and flanked by an oasis, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world, according to Unesco.
The site, most of which dates back to the 1st to the 2nd Century when the region was under Roman rule, is dominated by a grand, colonnaded street.
At the southern end of the 1.1km street is the great temple of Bel, considered one of the most important religious buildings of the 1st Century in the East and of unique design.
Syria's director of antiquities, Maamoun Abdul Karim, said that if Palmyra were to fall to IS, it would be an...

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